Good Councell against the plague / Shewing sundry present preseruatiues for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinks, vomits, and other inward receits: as also, the perfect cure (by implaysture) of any that are therewith infected. Now necessary to be obserued of euery housholder, to auoyde the infection, lately begun in some places of this cittie.

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An other preseruatiue to be distilled.

Take halfe a hundreth greene VValnuts, as they hange greene on the tree, & a pound of þ inner barke of Ash tree: then take Petimorrell, Housleeke, Scabias, & Veruyn, of each a handfull, Saffron halfe an ounce, and mince all these smal together: then put a pottle of the strongest Vineger on them, boyle them ouer a soft fyer in a close pot, & after distill them in a Limbecke: keepe the distilled water, & giue the patient two ounces to drink therof, 4. times in xxiiii. howers, when he is in his naked bed, & let him bee prouoked to sweat, and he shall find great ease therby.